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Dear Key Club Webmaster:
Welcome to another year of service to our homes, schools, and communities! Congratulations on being
elected to the computer-savvy position in Key Club International. Your club site can be amazing or not so great
through your dedication, commitment, and leadership. Therefore, it is crucial that you perform your duties to
the best of your abilities. I hope that the information found within this manual will assist you in your position
throughout the upcoming year. I am certain that each one of you has the potential to do an outstanding job.
The role of the club webmaster is associated with many responsibilities. You have to create your site by
organizing and planning designs, host your site, and make sure it is easy for people to access. The success of your
site depends on how well you and your officers interact to produce things to be published on the site. Always
maintain a good level of communication with your officers and make sure they are all being used optimally.
Have fun and stay on top of things.
Remember, building a website is not your only priority. You, as webmaster, still have the duty to perform
service. That being said, remember to have fun making your club website, have fun performing service. If there is
any help needed, please contact me, and I’ll be more than willing to help. Good luck once again, and I hope to
see your amazing site up soon!
P.S. Remember to send me or your Lieutenant Governor your club website link so that it can be posted on the
New Jersey District Website (www.njkeyclub.org)
Yours in caring and service,
Lieutenant Governor
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NEW JERSEY DISTRICT
KEY CLUB INTERNATIONAL
CARING…our way of life

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Webmaster’s DutiesWebmaster’s Duties
During the next year, you will be planning, organizing, and carrying out duties associated with your role as the club’s webmaster. Not
only are you expected to create and maintain a website for your club, but you are also expected to perform service, just as any other
officer.
Duties and Responsibilities
o Create and Maintain a site
o Before adding pictures, make sure you have permission to do so. (An ideal way is to create a media release form).
o Keep close contact with other officers to keep the site up-to-date
o Make sure all of the data on the site works
o Help out other officers when they need it
o Keep close contact with your advisor, president, and editor to keep up to date advisor’s notes, agendas, and newsletters
o Perform community service
How to Make a WebsiteHow to Make a Website
• Four simple steps for building a club website
• Collect Information to put on your website
• Create your website
• Upload your website to a hosting service
• Publicize your website
What to include in a Key Club website
• Key Club roster for current service year
• Schedule of meetings for current service year/Meeting Agendas
• Upcoming events and projects for your Key Club
• Key Club Resources (links to other Key Club sites possibly within your Division or other
Divisions as well as the NJ District Key Club Website www.njkeyclub.org, and the Key
Club International Website, www.keyclub.org)
• News (Accomplishments/Goals Reached in your Key Club, new updates to the website,
etc.)
• Photographs & Movies! Keep digital memories of your projects, events, meetings, etc. for
everyone to see and enjoy!
• Listing of all members (and their e-mail addresses if permission is taken)
• History of Key Club (found on Key Club International Website)
• Officers Messages and any other relevant information…
Common Sense Alert! :
• ORGANIZE all your information on your website neatly.
• Do not clutter information or people will not find your website very useful.
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• Do NOT put personal information about any member on your Key Club website such as phone
numbers, addresses, etc.
• Before posting any photographs online, ask permission of the people (their parents if they are minors)
in the photographs to see if they really want their photographs up or not.
What to UseWhat to Use
Programs to use (You may use whatever program you like but these are some recommendations)
o The Elite Webmaster - Macromedia Dreamweaver
o This program is the mother of all website creation software on the internet. It features a
raw HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) Editor as well as a WYSIWYG (What You See
Is What You Get) Editor. The powerful features and semi-steep learning curve of this
program makes it the choice for the more advanced webmasters
o The Decent Webmaster - Ulead PhotoImpact 7.0
o This program takes a whole different approach to website creation. Webmasters can
design their websites graphically as they would use any imaging program such as Adobe
Photoshop 6.0/7.0, etc. This program is slightly easier to use than Dreamweaver and is
also built for the web.
o The Rookie Webmaster - Microsoft Frontpage 98/2000/XP
o This is probably the most popular website creation software available today. It is perfect
for both advanced and beginner webmasters because it contains a plethora of features for
all skill levels. This is also a WYSIWYG Editor as well as a raw HTML Editor.
o The downside to the above 3 software recommendations is that neither of them are free.
However, trial versions of all 3 programs can be found on their respective websites. There
are also many free website creation programs available on the web today.
o A good place to look for FREE web-design programs is www.download.com
o Keep in mind, several schools have classes that teach web-design, so ask your Computer
Services head about what programs they use, and whether they have student-licensed
program cds
CreativenessCreativeness
How to make your website creative and attractive (Use your mind)
o Use Still & Animated Graphics
o Consider adding some graphics to your website just to spruce it up and make it attractive.
o Use Key Club Logos
(http://www.kiwanis.org/logos.html#keyclub)
o Flash Animation - Flash animation is not hard to create! These animation files load fast
and can be created easily using programs such as SWiSH 2.0 (www.swishzone.com) and
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Coffeecup Firestarter 5.0 (www.coffeecup.com) as well as with Macromedia Flash MX
(www.macromedia.com)
Common Sense Alert!
• Do not use too many graphics or animations on your website otherwise it will take dial-up internet
users a great deal of time to load your website and they probably will just give up and not even view it.
• This is not common sense but when using graphics for the web, always use .GIF or .JPG graphics
because they are high quality compressed graphics and load much quicker than .TIFF or .BMP
graphics.
HostingHosting
Hosting your website
After a website is created, it needs to be hosted on a computer which is connected to the internet directly (also
called a server). There are many free services that can host your website for you just by transferring your website
files to them but there are also a plethora of pay services. Since you do not want to drain money out of your Key
Club treasury, hosting with a free service is recommended. The downside to free services is that the address of
your site will usually be long and complex (i.e. http://www.freeservice.com/yourkeyclub/, etc.). Free services also
usually come with advertisements that pop up when people view your website. This can be downright annoying
to visitors but it is the price to pay for the free hosting. Yet another downside to free hosting is that when you
sign up for them, you have to provide lots of personal information which some people do not feel like doing. But
again, that is the price of free hosting. The recommended free services are:
• Yahoo! Geocities (www.geocities.com) - Delivers complete
site statistics; offers many layout options; tools are easy to use; customizable ads
• Lycos Tripod (www.tripod.com) -Short address;
complete toolset for all skill levels; attractive templates; customizable ads,
• Lycos Angelfire (www.angelfire.com); customizable ads. Nothing too fancy
There are many free web hosting services on the web but don’t count on their services being any better than
the 3 recommended ones above. All of the above services have customizable templates if you do not want to
make your own website design. However, keep searching around by typing “free web hosting services” in any
search engine (i.e. Yahoo!, Google, Excite, Lycos, etc.)
A recommended host for a domain name is www.1and1.com. They offer very affordable hosting services and
also include a free domain name.
After finding a hosting service, you want to upload your website files to the service. Many of the free web hosting
services have built in file upload mechanisms with their services in which you can log into your free account on
the free service’s site and browse to your website files on your computer and the mechanisms will automatically
upload (transfer) your files to their computers. However, some free hosting services also provide FTP (File
Transfer Protocol) support for uploading your files to their computers. Uploading your files through FTP is
generally easier than with the file upload mechanisms because you can download FTP programs which connect
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to your free hosting provider’s servers and easily allow you to upload your files yourself. Recommended FTP
Programs are
o Coffeecup FreeFTP 1.0 (www.coffeecup.com)
- Easy-to-use FTP client for file uploads and downloads
o WS_FTP (www.ipswitch.com)
-The most powerful FTP software on the market today. Easy to use.
Publicize and UpdatePublicize and Update
After creating and uploading your website to a web hosting service, you want people to actually visit your Key
Club site. There are many ways you can publicize your website and attract visitors to it. Here are some ways you
can use to publicize your website
o Send out flyers to all members of your Key Club telling them to visit the website for useful
information about their Key Club and news/events
o Send out a mass e-mail to all the members of your Key Club (if you have their e-mail
addresses) advertising your Key Club website
o Hang up posters in your school hallways (with permission of course) advertising the Key
Club website
o Register your website with several search engines such as Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com),
Google (www.google.com), Excite (www.excite.com), Lycos (www.lycos.com), etc. This
allows people that are not even in your Key Club to know about your website and possibly
visit it.
o Put links of other Key Club websites in your Division or in New Jersey on your Key Club
website and have them put your site’s link on their sites. This allows visitors to everyone’s
Key Club sites visit everyone else’s Key Club sites.
Since you are making a Key Club website, put Key Club information on your website! Here are some links to Key
Club resources you can use to help you in the creation of your website. They contain information about Key
Club and the K-Family of Clubs as well as logos, bulletins, etc.
o New Jersey District of Key Club International (www.njkeyclub.org)
o Key Club International (www.keyclub.org)
o Kiwanis International (www.kiwanis.org)
o New Jersey District of Kiwanis International (www.njkiwanis.org)
You might also want to maintain a master e-mail address list of all the members in your Key Club to send out
notices about website updates, news, upcoming events, etc.
o The easiest way to maintain a master e-mail list so you do not have to keep typing every
member’s e-mail address every time you want to send a mass mailing out to them is to use
a free mailing list service. Possibly the best free mailing list service is CoolList
(www.coollist.com). This service allows you to enter all your members’ e-mail addresses on
their website and gives you one short e-mail address (i.e. yourkeyclub@coollist.com) which
sends out whatever you e-mail to that address to everyone whose address you typed in on
their website. This way, you only have to type one e-mail address whenever you want to
send an e-mail out to all members.
o Another way to maintain a master e-mail list of your members is to store all members’ e-
mail addresses in the address book of the e-mail program/service you use (i.e. America
Online, Microsoft Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo!, etc.).
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Glossary of TermsGlossary of Terms
Glossary of Computer and Web Terminology (taken from the American Heritage Dictionary Version on the
Microsoft Bookshelf 2000 CD-ROM)
BMP (Bitmap Graphic) - a high quality, uncompressed image file
Byte - A unit of data, today almost always consisting of eight bits
Computer - Any machine that can accept structured input, apply prescribed rules to the input, and produce the
results as a structured output
Editor - A program that creates files or makes changes to existing files. An HTML editor is used to create or
modify websites through code
Flash animation - A high quality web animation standard developed by Macromedia Corporation
(www.macromedia.com)
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) -A set of rules designed to upload or download files from one computer system to
another through the internet
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) -A graphics file format developed by CompuServe (www.compuserve.com)
and used for transmitting raster images on the Internet. An image may contain up to 256 colors, including a
transparent color
Graphic - A computer file containing a pictorial representation of anything
Hosting Service -An Internet Service Provider that stores a website’s files on its own computers which are directly
connected to the internet for anyone to view the website
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) -The client/server protocol used to access information on the World Wide
Web
IP (Internet Protocol) Address - A 32-bit dotted-quad numerical web address used to connect to computers on
the internet (i.e., 127.0.0.1)
ISP (Internet Service Provider) - A business that supplies Internet connectivity services to individuals, businesses,
and other organizations
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) - An ISO/ITU standard for storing images in compressed form using a
discrete cosine transform. JPEG trades compression off against loss; it can achieve a compression ratio of 100:1
with significant loss and possibly 20:1 with little noticeable loss
Mailing list - A list of names and e-mail addresses that are grouped under a single name. When a user places the
name of the mailing list in a mail client's To: field, the client automatically sends the same message to the
machine where the mailing list resides, and that machine sends the message to all the addresses on the list
Megabyte - Abbreviated MB. Usually 1,048,576 bytes (220); sometimes interpreted as 1 million bytes
Server - On the Internet or other network, a computer or program that responds to commands from a client. For
example, a file server may contain an archive of data or program files; when a client submits a request for a file,
the server transfers a copy of the file to the client
Template - In word processing and desktop/web designing programs, a predesigned document that contains
formatting and, in many cases, generic text
Website - A set of interconnected webpages, usually including a homepage, generally located on the same server,
and prepared and maintained as a collection of information by a person, group, or organization
WYSIWYG (What-you-see-is-what-you-get) - Relating to or being a word-processing or desktop/web designing
program in which the screen displays text and graphics exactly as they will print or appear in a web browser
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Glossary of TermsGlossary of Terms
Glossary of Computer and Web Terminology (taken from the American Heritage Dictionary Version on the
Microsoft Bookshelf 2000 CD-ROM)
BMP (Bitmap Graphic) - a high quality, uncompressed image file
Byte - A unit of data, today almost always consisting of eight bits
Computer - Any machine that can accept structured input, apply prescribed rules to the input, and produce the
results as a structured output
Editor - A program that creates files or makes changes to existing files. An HTML editor is used to create or
modify websites through code
Flash animation - A high quality web animation standard developed by Macromedia Corporation
(www.macromedia.com)
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) -A set of rules designed to upload or download files from one computer system to
another through the internet
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) -A graphics file format developed by CompuServe (www.compuserve.com)
and used for transmitting raster images on the Internet. An image may contain up to 256 colors, including a
transparent color
Graphic - A computer file containing a pictorial representation of anything
Hosting Service -An Internet Service Provider that stores a website’s files on its own computers which are directly
connected to the internet for anyone to view the website
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) -The client/server protocol used to access information on the World Wide
Web
IP (Internet Protocol) Address - A 32-bit dotted-quad numerical web address used to connect to computers on
the internet (i.e., 127.0.0.1)
ISP (Internet Service Provider) - A business that supplies Internet connectivity services to individuals, businesses,
and other organizations
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) - An ISO/ITU standard for storing images in compressed form using a
discrete cosine transform. JPEG trades compression off against loss; it can achieve a compression ratio of 100:1
with significant loss and possibly 20:1 with little noticeable loss
Mailing list - A list of names and e-mail addresses that are grouped under a single name. When a user places the
name of the mailing list in a mail client's To: field, the client automatically sends the same message to the
machine where the mailing list resides, and that machine sends the message to all the addresses on the list
Megabyte - Abbreviated MB. Usually 1,048,576 bytes (220); sometimes interpreted as 1 million bytes
Server - On the Internet or other network, a computer or program that responds to commands from a client. For
example, a file server may contain an archive of data or program files; when a client submits a request for a file,
the server transfers a copy of the file to the client
Template - In word processing and desktop/web designing programs, a predesigned document that contains
formatting and, in many cases, generic text
Website - A set of interconnected webpages, usually including a homepage, generally located on the same server,
and prepared and maintained as a collection of information by a person, group, or organization
WYSIWYG (What-you-see-is-what-you-get) - Relating to or being a word-processing or desktop/web designing
program in which the screen displays text and graphics exactly as they will print or appear in a web browser
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